BY JEREMY THOMAS
As the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department continued its investigation into the shooting death of a Santa Maria police officer by a fellow officer, more details tr...
BY JEREMY THOMAS
Lacey Strange, the 18-year-old daughter of a Lompoc police sergeant, was sentenced on Jan. 24 to 120 days confinement in connection with the death of a Lompoc woman last May.
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BY KRISTINA SEWELL
While the fallout from the state’s decision to disband community redevelopment agencies continues to rage and animosity between state and local governments persists, the...
BY MATT FOUNTAIN
Catholic Healthcare West, which operates one hospital in Santa Maria, has changed its name and some of its facilities’ affiliations with the Catholic Church as part of a...
• A headline in the Jan. 26 “Biz Spotlight” misreported some information about dental supply DenMat. Robert Ibsen is the founder of DenMat. The owner is Centr...
BY KRISTINA SEWELL
After mismanaging the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it would appear that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is continuing its goal of being more proactive in pre...
BY JASON BANANIA
The Santa Barbara Foundation recently awarded the Transitional-Mental Health Association (T-MHA) a $30,000 grant to fund a new program that will train individuals suffering fr...
During February, the Discovery Museum is traveling back in time and studying local history. Every week, our free programs will focus on a special theme related to the history ...
BY ARIEL WATERMAN
The 2012 American Library Association Awards represent the best in children’s literature. One of the ALA Awards categories is the prestigious Coretta Scott King Book Awa...
BY PAMELLA WOOD
“Local services by local people” describes how Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care (VNHC) operates its Solvang office, which serves residents of the Santa Ynez a...
BY JUSTIN RUHGE
Those who oppose the use of nuclear power and think that solar, wind, and others will be substitutes do not understand that the real issue is in the numbers. Those nuclear pow...
Frederick Thom
What is it about waterboarding a prisoner 83 times that makes our president want to keep it a secret?
Robyn Turner, RN, district nurse administrator
On behalf of my fellow school nurses, I would like to thank you for highlighting our profession in your recent issue (“Nurse of all trades,” Jan. 19). However, the...
Ashley Payne
Community Partners in Caring is a volunteer organization helping seniors (62 and older) in need. The mission of the organization is to provide volunteer services for seniors...
Eugene G. Carl
Our freedom of speech First Amendment rights conflict with our 14th Amendment rights for equal representation. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Buckley v. Valeo ruled tha...
Frank DePasquale
The funding and legislative support for education in California has been slowly declining for the past 20 years. We are now ranked 46th in the nation for per-pupil spending. E...
Will Powers, Ph.D
Most Christians are familiar with Jesus’ teaching that a house built upon sand will collapse. His message? A life based on dishonesty cannot succeed.
The same is true...
BY THE BLEACHER BUM
Ah, the Super Bowl. That time of year when everyone is a football fan, or at least pretends to be until all the snacks and beer disappear and the neighborhood party’s wr...
BY JASON BANANIA
A layer of gold was added to Righetti High School wrestler Zevra Robinson’s solid purple singlet when she took home first place from the ASICS Napa Valley Classic wrestl...
BY AMY ASMAN
Officials from the Lucia Mar Unified School District joined Pacific Gas & Electric to break ground on the new Central Coast New Tech High School on Jan. 26.
With construc...
BY AMY ASMAN
In recognition of national Catholic Schools Week, more than 700 students, teachers, and administrators from St. Joseph High School, St. Mary of the Assumption, St. Louis de ...
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I have a confession to make: I’m a closeted ABBA fan. Honestly, I don’t know why I feel the need to be in the closet about my ABBA adoration because, let’s f...
If you had a spaceship, what would you do with it in space?
BY ANNA WELTNER
Attending the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s opening weekend with the intention of generating some sort of conclusive report is a fool’s errand at bes...
BY SHELLY CONE
Most of the time the dysfunctional relationship between a mom and her son is no laughing matter—but that’s only if you haven’t seen Lompoc Civic Theatre&rsqu...
Steven Boothe will demonstrate his process of creating mixed media photo collages at the free Feb. 10 meeting of the Los Padres Artist Guild at 6 p.m. at the Luis Oasis Senior...
The 11th annual Brush & Palette Art Show will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Feb. 26 at the Foxenwood Tennis and Swim Club, 1087 Clubhouse Drive, in Orcutt. The event i...
Solvang Brewing Company will exhibit the works of artists in its exhibit space for members of the Artists Guild of the Santa Ynez Valley located at the brewery, 1547 Mission D...
BY ROB KRIDER
My wife is a smart lady. You could even say she is a genius. Sure, she still tries to put five pints of fluid into a two-quart cup. But, regardless of her inability to underst...
BY JOE PAYNE
Jazz is one of the few musical styles indigenous to America. Jazz has also gone through more changes, mutations, and rebirths than most styles. Yet, jazz is still misunderstoo...
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Director and co-writer Joe Carnahan (Smokin’ Aces, The A-Team) directs Liam Neeson and Dermot Mulroney as two members of an Alaskan oil drilling crew that struggles to s...
BY WENDY THIES SELL
A few of life’s little luxuries are actually doing well in this sluggish economy. Alcohol sales are up, same with nail polish, and Americans are still screaming for ice ...
Allan Hancock College’s Ann Foxworthy gallery presents its annual Fine Arts Student Art Show. The exhibit showcases the works of the fine arts department’s student...
The Lompoc Museum presents the works of an African weaving artist Ester La Pollo. She’s from the small African nation of Eritrea, and her art is heavily influenced by th...
Allan Hancock College invites all students, new and returning, to attend the “Bulldog Bow-Wow!” orientation event at its Lompoc and Santa Maria campuses. The event...
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